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  • Sikorsky VH-92A Aircraft Passes Initial Test to Become New Presidential Helicopter - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Sikorsky VH-92A Aircraft Passes Initial Test to Become New Presidential Helicopter

    Sikorsky‘s VH-92A rotary aircraft passed its initial flight assessment to replace older VH-3D and VH-60N units as the presidential helicopter, USNI reported Tuesday. Sikorsky received a $1.2B contract in 2014 to build up to 23 new helicopters, right before Lockheed Martin‘s acquisition of the company. The first new helicopter landed on the White House during a […] More

  • Rockwell Collins to Present at Upcoming Training Industry Event - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Rockwell Collins to Present at Upcoming Training Industry Event

    Rockwell Collins will unveil a new aircraft simulation system and a new data security product at the upcoming Interservice/Industry Training, Simulation and Education Conference. The company said Monday it will also demonstrate live, virtual training; the Coalescence mixed reality system; the Integrated Digital Vision System; and the Enhanced Reality Vision System during the event taking […] More

  • State Dept. Taps DynCorp for Afghanistan Life Support Services - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    State Dept. Taps DynCorp for Afghanistan Life Support Services

    The Department of State has tasked DynCorp International to provide Afghanistan life support services under three new orders cumulatively valued at $7.9M. The company said Monday it will revamp the Regional Security Officer’s programs and activities, maintain associated equipment, and administer mail services for the U.S. Embassy in Kabul under a $2.2M order. An additional […] More

  • General Dynamics to Provide Cloud Services for Navy Under Potential $96M BPA - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    General Dynamics to Provide Cloud Services for Navy Under Potential $96M BPA

    General Dynamics‘ information technology business will help the U.S. Navy implement a cloud technology platform under a potential five-year, $96M blanket purchase agreement. The company said Monday it will provide commercial cloud offerings including Amazon Web Services and Microsoft Azure via the General Services Administration’s Schedule 70 multiple-award contract. The BPA, which was awarded by the […] More

  • Kratos Gets New UAV Development Projects, Opens New Production Site - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Kratos Gets New UAV Development Projects, Opens New Production Site

    Kratos Defense & Security Solutions‘ number of ongoing unmanned air vehicle public programs have increased from three to seven over this year’s third quarter, resulting to a new 100K-square feet production facility in Oklahoma City, Flight Global reported Friday. Eric DeMarco, the company’s CEO, said at an earnings call earlier this month that Kratos is […] More

  • Cubic Taps Leonardo DRS to Supply F-35 Training Subsystems - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Cubic Taps Leonardo DRS to Supply F-35 Training Subsystems

    Cubic‘s global defense unit has selected Leonardo DRS to provide over 500 internal subsystems of a combat training platform for the F-35 aircraft. The effort would globally bring the number of F-35 units equipped with the P5 Combat Training System to over a thousand, Leonardo DRS said Friday. The P5CTS is designed to record real-time mission […] More

  • Battelle to Develop Search Systems for Defense Technical Information Center - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Battelle to Develop Search Systems for Defense Technical Information Center

    The U.S. Air Force has awarded a potential five-year, $14.6M task order to Battelle for information technology services in support of the Defense Technical Information Center’s data search needs. The company said Friday it will work with Securboration and Information International Associates under the Cybersecurity Technical Area Task multiple-award contract to augment the center’s capacity […] More

  • AWS Grants 'Government Competency' Status to SAIC - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    AWS Grants ‘Government Competency’ Status to SAIC

    Science Applications International Corp. has obtained a Government Competency designation from Amazon Web Services as a provider of cloud offerings to the public sector. SAIC said Thursday the status recognizes the company’s services and experience in efforts to deliver government information technology applications and workloads via AWS. The Reston, Va.-based IT services contractor designs, generates and manages cloud-based workloads, […] More

  • ViON's Liz Anthony Gets Public Sector Marketing Award; Tom Frana Quoted - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    ViON’s Liz Anthony Gets Public Sector Marketing Award; Tom Frana Quoted

    Liz Anthony, senior vice president of marketing at ViON, has received the Government Marketing University’s 2018 Gainer for her leadership in the company’s marketing efforts across the public sector. ViON said Thursday the award recognizes its One Is All You Need campaign aimed to promote MarketPlace, a single access point for sourcing, evaluation, procurement and management of information […] More

  • General Dynamics Unit to Help Manage Navy, Marine Platforms - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    General Dynamics Unit to Help Manage Navy, Marine Platforms

    General Dynamics‘s information technology business has won a potential five-year, $64.6M contract for project management and engineering services to land, sea and air systems of the U.S. Navy and the U.S. Marine Corps. Efforts under the indefinite-delivery/indefinite-quantity contract will aim to help both service branches gather, detect, evaluate, identify, exploit, neutralize and distribute technologies for […] More

  • Arizona State University, AWS to Support Smart City Development - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Arizona State University, AWS to Support Smart City Development

    Arizona State University and Amazon Web Services have partnered to address community limitations in the Phoenix area through the use of cloud technologies. The partnership will establish the ASU Smart City Cloud Innovation Center to support smart city designers, generate options for technology alternatives, boost economic development and facilitate distribution of government technologies across the […] More